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In July 2013 I was on assignment with writer Devon Maloney at the East Coast Roller Derby Extravaganza in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, for Grantland. Check out my photos and Devon’s coverage here. Advertisements

I produced this live recording of the New Orleans-based act, Yes Ma’am, as a part of a special Folk to Folk project for True/False Film Fest in March, 2013. Over the course of four days, my co-producers and I recorded and interviewed dozens of musicians and performances to capture the vibrant busking scene that sweeps through the streets of Columbia, Missouri each winter. Complete coverage will be featured on the True/False website.

In 2013 I became a resident and “chef” at the re-incaranted Silent Barn, a D.I.Y./D.I.T.-style incubator for community and the arts located in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The following photos document the space’s inaugural year on Bushwick Avenue.

The following’s drawn from my experiences couch-surfing and traveling cross-country while conducting interviews for Folk to Folk during the summer of 2012. It appeared originally in Thought Catalog. In Buffalo, your plans will fall through. Don’t get discouraged, even though this is your first night on the road. Go to a bar. Call the friends of friends of friends. Something will work out, sometime after midnight. The next night, quit town and share a campsite with Scott and Amy, friends of […]

When I started to travel more a few years ago, I got into the habit of imagining myself in the spaces I would soon encounter – a process that always clashed with the experience itself. The mountains seemed smaller, the color less vibrant, the noise too distracting. In a world where we can easily pre-see anywhere we wish to go ourselves, travel boils down to coming to terms with places we already know. Rather than focus on taking photos of these […]

In the spring of 2010 I wrote a weekly blog for BU Today, Boston University’s news and information site, about studying and working abroad in Paris – aptly titled “Our Man in Paris.” You can find the rest in this series here. Becoming annoyed at tourists is a sure sign that you’re starting to feel like a local. From a Bostonian’s perspective, there are only so many times you can tolerate a duck boat–load of middle schoolers screaming “QUACK, QUACK!” as […]